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>> axelrod: tonight, a question for the judge. p may we please have clarification on the icstructions regarding manslaughter? f axelrod: the first full day berationerations in the murder trial of george zimmerman. ark strassmann and michelle miller have the latest. new abortion restrictions just passed in texas have protesters mobilized. terrell brown on what this means to texas and the rest of the country. these planes were caused by a nsain causing oil. don dahler investigates the growing concerns of oil more than ever being transported by rail. and clowns on a mission. a couple that brings smiles to some kids who need them most. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> axelrod: good evening.
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i'm jim axelrod with a western edition. the lines are drawn neatly in sanford, florida, where two camps of demonstrators are waiting for a verdict in the trial of the man accused of murdering trayvon martin, those who think george zimmerman was acting in self defense in the altercation with the 17-year-old and those who think he's a killer. after a full day of deliberations, jurors had a question for the judge. mark strassmann joins us now from the courthouse. mark, what do they want to know? ow? >> reporter: well, jim, the question that they sent in is by far the clearest indication yet of the debate inside the jury room. >> the question reads as follows, may we please have clarification on the instructions regarding manslaughter? >> trayvon. >> justice. >> outside the courthouse in sanford today, demonstrators were divided. >> george, guilty. >> george, guilty. >> like so many americans are about whether george zimmerman took the law into his own hands. >> inside this courtroom, zimmerman's future was still
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uncertain and will be until a jury of six women agree on a verdict. >> prosecutor john guy wanted them to see zimmerman as a murderer with hate in his heart. >> this case is not about standing your ground, it is about staying in your car like he was taught to do. >> the defense lawyer mark o'mara argued zimmerman's choice was kill or be killed. >> what other options did he have? none. >> tracy martin and sybrina fulton the dead teen's parents watched every day of testimony. >> martin talked to us the night before the trial began. >> the end is not what you want, what would the message be to you? >> we know that we did everything we could do to get the outcome that we wanted, but if it does gone our way we will still continue to be a voice for trayvon. >> reporter: the jury's request to clarify the
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manslaughter charge is bound to worry zimmerman's legal team, all along, they have been confident they would get an acquittal on the murder charge but, jim, they are anxious that this jury might see a conviction blah you. michel arch also in sanford, a ns us now, michelle, all eyes on the jury now, what do we know about the si women who will decide george zimmerman's fate? >> well, the six jurors on this panel because florida panel requires a jury of 12 only in death penalty cases. this is what else we know about these women, five of the six jurors are mothers, five are over the age of 40, now, two have owned a weapons permit at one time and one juror has been the victim of domestic violence. >> now early on the prosecution attempted to expel one of the jurors heard that trayvon martin was in the sanford area after suspended from his high school in miami for suspicion of marijuana possession. >> now all of the jurors have
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lived in the seminole county area for some time with the exception of two, one was from iowa, moved there recently, as well as another from chicago, and she is the mother of seven. she is the lone minority on this panel and she said she moved her children here to raise them in a safer environment. >> jim. >> axelrod: michelle, thank you. early this morning the texas legislature approved one of the nation's most restrictive abortion borings, abortion laws, the it capped emotional battle that is likely to move on to the courts, here is terrell brown. >> the crowd of pro-choice supporters rallied well past midnight, and numbers not seen in at least 20 years. >> earlier in the night, texas state senators passed sweeping new abortion restrictions. >> house bill 2 is final i will passed. >> the new bill would ban most abortions after 20 weeks, abortions would have to be performed in hospital style surgical rooms, and doctors would needed a mitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
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they opponents say it will force all but a handful of the abortion clinics to close and the resulting back logs will cause women to miss the 20 week deadline. >> judy laubenberg sponsored the bill. >> i am not restricting any access to abortion. the only part of the bill that i am actually stopping the abortion is the if month ban, and i do feel very strongly about that. >> reporter: there are exceptions for the life of the mother and severe fetal abnormalities. >> but rape and incest were not included. because of that, sarah davis was the only republican representative to vote against the bill. >> this is about politics, this is not about policy. this is about having things to talk about in republican primary campaigns. >> democratic senator wendy davis, forced the abortion battle into the national spotlight with her last-minute late minute 11 hour filibuster which tell temporarily kill heed
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the bill but with the majority republican legislature texas joins more than half a dozen states where similar restrictions have passed and all face challenges. >> governor rick perry will sign the bill into law in the next few days and when that happens, abortion rights groups say they will be ready with a federal lawsuit challenging the new law, jim. >> axelrod: terrell, thank you. china's state media today identified the third person to die after last week's crash-landing of asia naah flight 214 in san francisco, she isly you ping. >> she joins a pair of two chinese girls that perished in the crash. >> as a solemn ceremony honoring the victims of the crash took place off in the distance, asiana flight 214 from seoul to san francisco landed safely on run 28 left which reopened friday night. >> standing on the shore facing the runway were the families of
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two high school girls who were killed in the crash. >> we gather here together to pray for the victims of asiana airlines crash. >> they marked the moment one week ago when the plane crashed. >> both 16 girls were ejected from the plane, the two friends were travelling to a summer camp together, sherry shih spoke with their parents. >> they camped together for the summer camp, if one didn't want to come and the other one will make it too. >> they were only going to go if they could go together. >> that's right. >> 14 passengers and crew members are still in the hospital, two are in critical condition. many of the other survivors are being isolated under tight security at the airport crown plaza hotel, where asiana airlines has booked every room, attorney frank petry is one of the few outsiders allowed inside. >> you have met them. >> what are they like right now? >> they are stared, they are in
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this catch-22. i want to go home, i want to be with my family, but i don't want to get on an airplane. >> some of the survivors staying at the hotel tell us they are anxious and uncertain about their future here, and they are not getting clear answers from the airline. they have been given $400 cash, but, jim, their needs one week after the crash are far greater than that. >> axelrod: carter, thank you. the ceo of ethiopian airlines says it will keep flying its boeing 787s despite an investigation into a fire on one of its dream liners. the empty 787 was parked at london's heathrow airport yesterday, when a fire broke out in the rear of the plane. british investigators say the fire was not caused by the plane's lithium ion batteries which grounded all 787s worldwide earlier this year. egypt's interim prime minister
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now says he will form his new cabinet by the end of next week. prosecutors there are weighing charges against deposed president mohamed morsi for damaging the nation's economy. >> as holly williams reports from cairo, as the charge many egyptians would support. >> reporter: many egyptians celebrated their country's revolution of two and a half years ago. but egypt is still in turmoil. >> today, there were more angry protests over the military's intervention to oust mohamed morsi. egypt's first democratically elected president. >> and ordinary egyptians life has become more difficult, 40 percent of the country is now living in poverty. >> umm ali has been buying her fish in this cairo market for 40 years. >> things haven't gotten better, she told us, the prices have gone up, and there is no work. >> in this middle class
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neighborhood, many people say mohamed morsi was a failure who mismanaged the economy. they are happy the military deposed him and hope it will bring stability. without it, one of egypt's most important industries will die, crowds of foreign tourists used to line up to see this country's treasure trove of ancient monuments but now the pyramids stand deserted, foreign visitors have nearly all been frightened off. mohammed essam used to bring a busy souvenir shop now he tolds us he sees just one or two customers a day. >> where are you from. >> florida? >> america. you are more than welcome. >> reporter: mohammed told us he protested during the egyptian revolution but now he is struggling to make ends meet and is tired of politics. >> i open every day and i close at 10:00 every day, but very little customers. we hope one day to be better,
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but when? but when? >> reporter: since the military intervention some of egypt's wealthy neighbors, including saudi arabia have promised $12 billion in financial aid. but in a country plagued by corruption and waste, even that amount of money will only be a temporary fix to egypt's problems. jim. >> axelrod: holly, thank you. we got some video to show you that is remarkable, even for an event that always seems to provide eye-catching pictures. this is pam below that spain where they are conducting their annual running of the bulls. today dozens of people were trapped and trampled in the final day, most were crushed in a pileup at the narrow entrance to the bull ring. >> two people were gored one of them an american from cleveland. no name yet, but we are told he is recovering in a hospital after surgery. later, royal expectations, the old-fashioned way the world will hear when the royal baby
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arrives. and in the aftermath of a deadly train explosion just how safe is it to ship oil by rail? those stories when the cbs evening news continues.
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>> axelrod: a six-year-old boy is in critical condition in a chicago hospital tonight after being buried alive when a sand do you know collapsed, the boy was playing at the indiana dunes national lakeshore, along lake michigan when he became trapped under 11 feet of sand, he survived in an air pocket until he was pulled out three and a half hourstlvi later. >> church bells rang out in canada in the small quebec town of lac-megantic, 150 people believed killed in a horrific train explosion there one week ago. at don dahler reports, the
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disaster mere the border with maine is casting a spotlight on the surging use of trains to transport crude oil supplies. >> reporter: as canadian officials investigate the catastrophic train wreck mr. this small town mere the border with maine, resident helen hopkins helen hopkins greffard questions the railroad's safety procedures. >> it is just unthinkable that there is only one train engineer or operator who is running this monster. how can there only be one? >> emergency crews have set up boons to capture oil that is contaminating the nearby chaudiere river. last month, the rail appears tankers spilled 3,400 gallons of tanker into a nearby field, there is the fourth train accident involving crude oil shipment ms. canada this year. the amount of crude oil traveling by rail in north america has increased from 9,500 cars in 2008 to more than 233,000 last year. that is because domestic oil production is booming, up
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17 percent over the sairnl period, and there aren't enough pipelines to move all that oil to refineries. one proposal, the massive keystone xl pipeline would carry crude through six states to refineries on the gulf coast. >> but there is so much oil being extracted it won't reduce the hundreds of tank cars rolling through towns like glasgow, montana, every day, valvely county commissioner bruce peterson says oil transported by rail or pipeline both have their down side. >> some day, keystone, the i am sure is going to spring a leak some place but anything man-made has never been perfect and if people want a perfe system, then we are on the wrong plan net, i think. >> dale tarum who farms near fort peck, montana worries about the recent derailments in the region. >> 35 cars that were derailed and everything that you would find in a target store was scattered across the country side, cleanup, bulldozers and clean that up, what do you do when you dump 37 cars of oil? >> in lac-megantic, helen
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hopkins greffard thanks transporting oil by rail is just too dangerous. >> i don't think the planes will ever come through here again. the people are up in arms. >> the american owners of the derailed plane in quebec, the montreal maine and atlantic short line railway did not respond to a cbs news request for comment, publicly, they blame the engineer for failing to set the brakes on the train. which came from north dakota. >> jim. >> axelrod: don, thank you. up next a next, as kateaby is cn happens when the newborn arrives?
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roya. >> axelrod: perhaps you have heard, in london, kate middleton and prince william are expecting their first child, and while buckham palace has only said the due date is some time in july as the month wears on everyone's royal expectations are peeking. here is elizabeth palmer. > >> reporter: and that was it. kate's last public appearance exactly one month ago before she disappeared from view to await for her baby. outside st. mary's hospital in london this weekend, the media are waiting too. the birth of this baby will be big news. it is already big business for bookies who dropped by in costume to show the betting odds on the baby's name. and no surprise, poke on at that and hash tag are the long shots.
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>> as for the baby's gender, well when queen elizabeth was crowned, she was a relative rarity, over the centuries, england has had 58 kings and only eight queens. >> that is because boys were always first in line. but no longer. the law has just been changed to give girls equal rights to the throne. >> nikka roya is cbs's royal watcher. >> regardless of born a boy or girl, it is hugely historic for this country's royal history. >> the bay "s's father prince william is going to be a modern dad. he will be in the delivery room himself and will emerge with his wife and child on this step. the very same one he first appeared on 31 years ago as a newborn, but before the royal, before the royals see the baby a birth announcement will be sent from the hospital two miles across london to buckham palace
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where it will be posted on an easel. >> and in odds of the fact it is after all, 2013 the news will also be posted on twitter. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: a man who changed the way so many of us experience sound has died. bose the man behind the speakers and headphones that bear his name was the son of imgrants from india, he was an inventor, a businessman, as well as a long time faculty member at mit, armand bose was 93. >> still ahead, the serious business of clowning around.
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>> axelrod: we want to close tonight in washington, with a little clowning around. a common question that consumes a lot of people in the nation's capitol is what they might do for a living after their government job ends, jessica gay introduces us to some people with answers with red noses and big feet. >> just putting this stuff under my eyes. >> judy and gary kopff. >> getting dressed is quicker for he. >> may be one of the few couples you will meet who don't mind when you call them a couple of cloudiness. >> they have been dressing up like this for years. they don't get paid for the work they do. >> we hope to generate a little
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bit of laughter and giggles amongst the kids. >> it started when she worked as a pentagon staff l logistics for the afghanistan and iraq war, a fannie mae executive needed a way to live with something they wanted more than anything. >> in the mid 1980s i did in vitro five times. >> i found after the fifth in vitro that i could never ever bear, conceive or bear children of my own. >> they tried surrogates and adoption but when those options failed, they moved on. >> that's the kind of heartbreak that has led to moments like this one, opportunities to bring smiles to the faces of the children of wounded warriors. >> they entertain the children with their balloons and magic tricks. >> you are the most unusual clown i have pretty much seen in a while. >> and it helps parents like melodie heyword.
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>> it is extremely important taking care of them from day to day, every single parent. >> to me, it was much more important to bond with the children, because of the void that i felt in my heart. >> tears of a clown. >> even though we don't have children, we still have a lucky life. >> mixed with laughter and smiles. >> cbs news, washington. >> axelrod: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight, later on cbs, two editions of 48 hours, for now i am jim axelrod in new york, from all of us at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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planned. how the feds are now getting involved. a muni light rail vehicle es with a van. what another step in getting the new bay bridge opened as originally planned. how the feds are now getting involved. >> a muni light rail vehicle collides with a van. what appears to have caused the crash. >> and history is made on the bay during the first official race of the america's cup. kpix 5 news is next. ,, ,,,,,,,,
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ials are pursui >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. bay bridge officials are pursuing a short-term fix for the new eastern span and if it works, the temporary repair could give bridge officials an option to open as planned on

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